Comments on: bad dream

By: ThorsProvoni

ThorsProvoni — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:26:28 +0000

Creating and marketing identity has been a Jewish pastime for a long time:

Origins: Zionist Gay Pubic Diplomacy
The Zionism of Gay Politics (an earlier version of the previous article with a slightly different focus)
Modern Identity Creates Ancient Origins

By: Yoni C.

Yoni C. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:58:37 +0000

Don't kid yourself, all Mondoweiss is a place for leftist Jew haters to come spew their ilk, its a tragic its a Jew who created this.

By: RichardWitty

RichardWitty — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:51 +0000

Messing with his identity on the basis of a single political conclusion IS an imposition. The basis of Jewish identity is much deeper and much broader, so the political is relatively trivial. On the other hand, it is an ethical negligence to ignore that the actions of a group do not have collective ethical significance. To continue a policy that is brutal, when there are other options is wrong, and to not point that observation out, is a gross negligence however much a gamble on your part that you get it right. There is a wide range of ethically benign approaches to a Jewish identity, including ones that are Zionist, ones that are a-Zionist, ones that prayerful and ones that are more service oriented. Even a defensive approach is understandable and valid, if it only results in separation. When it gets to unnecessary harming of another, its time to speak up and know that that is what you are doing, and return to that if you deviate.

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:17 +0000

Here's a nightmare for you: Imagine you're snug in bed, sound asleep when this horrifying vision materializes: A once-abused ethnic minority founds their own state and before the dust has settled, they begin massacring the native inhabitants and showing the entire world that they had studied and internalized the tactics of the Nazis…they had BECOME the very people they once sought to escape. now THERE's a movie scenario one would love to see…(though please, let's find a better director than silly Stephen Spielberg).

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:49:09 +0000

Feeling bad about betraying your own nation.

By: David_F

David_F — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:32:33 +0000

Fascinating dream, as yours always are. Do you remember how you changed the liturgy?

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:29:47 +0000

PS. It can be difficult to ascertain whether an individual is cross-dominant (and the degree thereof) with one exception. According to what I have read, if a person writes with their left hand but does not backslant, then that individual is cross-dominant!

By: David_F

David_F — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:26 +0000

Please change your name. It's already taken.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:21:18 +0000

I don't want to destroy anyone. I want honesty and an end to political correctness.

By: Un-Natural Growth

Un-Natural Growth — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:20:45 +0000

Actually, Phil, it's probably because you've made so much prgress with Mondoweiss, you have Jewish guilt about your role in establishing the new progressive identity. Hard-line Zionists are digging in their heels, and a change is needed no matter what. I'd say you probably had a good dream, all-in-all.